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Outgoing Chicago Dem Is Lone Nay in Blago Vote

Jan 9, 2009 3:09 PM CST

Outgoing Chicago Dem Is Lone Nay in Blago Vote

Milton Patterson won't say much beyond having 'gut feeling' about proceedings

(Newser) - The one nay vote in today’s Illinois House impeachment of Rod Blagojevich was from Chicago Democrat Milton Patterson, the Chicago Tribune reports. Patterson said he wasn’t defending the disgraced governor. “I went by my own gut feeling,” he said. The lone “present” vote belonged to...

Blago Remains Defiant, Quotes Tennyson

UPDATED

Jan 9, 2009 2:49 PM CST

Blago Remains Defiant, Quotes Tennyson

(Newser) - Rod Blagojevich says he's not surprised by today's vote to impeach him because the Illinois House has been out to get him for a year now, the Chicago Sun-Times reports. "It happened kind of fast," said the Illinois governor, who called a defiant news conference to reassert his...

'First Grandma' Moving Into
White House

Jan 9, 2009 2:05 PM CST

'First Grandma' Moving Into White House

(Newser) - Michelle Obama’s mother is moving into the White House, at least temporarily, the New York Times reports. Marian Robinson, 71, is already in Washington helping out the family, much as she did with the Obamas’ daughters during the campaign. “She will determine in the coming months whether or...

Panel Backs Impeachment;
Burris: No Favors Asked

updated

Jan 8, 2009 5:43 PM CST

Panel Backs Impeachment; Burris: No Favors Asked

(Newser) - Roland Burris told Rod Blagojevich's impeachment panel today that no shady business was involved in his Senate appointment, Bloomberg reports. “I would never participate in anybody’s quid pro quo,” Burris told Illinois lawmakers. Hours after he testified, the 21-member panel voted unanimously to recommend impeachment, the Tribune ...

Obama Serves Reid Humble Pie, Chicago Style

OPINION

Jan 8, 2009 2:02 PM CST

Obama Serves Reid Humble Pie, Chicago Style

President-elect's reversal on Burris straight from rough-and-tumble Windy City roots

(Newser) - Barack Obama served Harry Reid up a Chicago-style, deep-dish slice of humble pie this week, telling the Senate majority leader to seat Roland “Tombstone” Burris, John Kass writes in the Chicago Tribune. Reid, for his part, “scarfed it down in front of reporters, without a fork, all but...

Chicago Real Estate Mogul Kills Himself

Jan 7, 2009 2:32 PM CST

Chicago Real Estate Mogul Kills Himself

High-profile exec led expansion of Good family firm

(Newser) - A Chicago-area real estate mogul has been found dead after shooting himself in a wildlife preserve, CNN reports. Police say they don't know why 52-year-old Steven L. Good took his life; a rep said the local sheriff's department had no "concrete evidence if this had anything to do with...

Diet Trumps Exercise
in Obesity Fight

Jan 6, 2009 5:17 PM CST

Diet Trumps Exercise in Obesity Fight

Physical activity seems not to be 'primary driver' of obesity: researchers

(Newser) - Diet is more important than exercise when it comes to reducing obesity, LiveScience reports. A new study compared African American women living in Chicago, who weighed an average of 184 pounds, with women in rural Nigeria, who weighed 127. Contrary to researchers' expectations, the Nigerians were not any more physically...

Auction for Cubs Nears End

Jan 6, 2009 12:43 PM CST

Auction for Cubs Nears End

But team a long way from sold

(Newser) - The bidding for the Cubs is nearly over. The Tribune Co. could select a winner from the three finalists within a week to 10 days, the Chicago Tribune reports, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the team is about to be sold. Tribune would still need to negotiate with the...

Dems May Ask Cops to Keep Burris Off Senate Floor

Jan 1, 2009 10:13 PM CST

Dems May Ask Cops to Keep Burris Off Senate Floor

(Newser) - The inauguration ceremony for new senators is generally not a must-see affair, but then Rod Blagojevich never played a role before. Democratic aides tell CNN they will block the Illinois governor's appointment, Roland Burris, from entering the Senate chamber Tuesday, even if it means calling in the Capitol police. Burris...

Obama Blasts Blago's Move

Dec 30, 2008 5:47 PM CST

Obama Blasts Blago's Move

(Newser) - Barack Obama today criticized Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich's decision to appoint a successor to the president-elect's Senate seat, CNN reports. Obama called the governor's move "disappointing" and said he backed Democrats' position of blocking any such appointment. Obama again urged Blagojevich to resign so Illinois could have a "...

Emanuel Will Leave
Congress Friday

Dec 29, 2008 4:19 PM CST

Emanuel Will Leave Congress Friday

(Newser) - Rahm Emanuel’s transformation from Congressman to White House chief of staff is almost complete, the Chicago Tribune reports. Emanuel sent a letter to Gov. Rod Blagojevich today stating his intention to resign his seat on Friday. Blagojevich has no power to appoint Emanuel’s successor; rather, he has 5...

The Bra Wire
That Brought
Down Blago

GLOSSIES

Dec 29, 2008 1:25 PM CST

The Bra Wire That Brought Down Blago

Ill. corruption probe started with hospital administrator

(Newser) - The FBI corruption investigation that ended with the Illinois governor started in the bra of a surburban Chicago hospital exec, Nina Burleigh writes in the New Yorker. In 2003, Pamela Davis was trying to get a new building approved when she was told to use a certain contractor or kiss...

Capone's
Home to Hit
the Market

Dec 26, 2008 4:02 PM CST

Capone's Home to Hit the Market

Owner may ask $450K for 6-bedroom split-level on Chicago's South Side

(Newser) - Al Capone’s Chicago home is expected to hit the market this spring, asking price $450,000, reports the Tribune. This piece of gangster history comes with a pretty clean record: Capone used the red-brick house, registered in his mother’s and wife’s names, as a safe haven. “...

Blago Wants Obama Aides
to Testify in Impeachment

Dec 26, 2008 1:41 PM CST

Blago Wants Obama Aides to Testify in Impeachment

Attorney asks state panel subpoena Emanuel, Jarrett

(Newser) - Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich’s attorney wants the state’s impeachment panel to subpoena two of Barack Obama’s top aides, Politico reports. Ed Genson is not alleging that Rahm Emanuel and Valerie Jarrett did anything wrong, but rather that their testimony would help prove that Blagojevich’s taped conversations...

Obama Report:
No Ties to
Blago Scandal

updated

Dec 23, 2008 3:54 PM CST

Obama Report: No Ties to Blago Scandal

Emanuel was in touch, but nobody knew Illinois governor was trying to sell Senate seat

(Newser) - Barack Obama's camp pronounced itself clean as a whistle today with regard to the Rod Blagojevich scandal, NBC reports. The president-elect’s team released an internal report saying that no one on the staff, including Obama himself, had any inappropriate contact with the Illinois governor as he considered appointments to...

Big '09 Trends: Ice Cream, Cuba

OPINION

Dec 21, 2008 8:00 PM CST

Big '09 Trends: Ice Cream, Cuba

Goats, yogurt, and ecologically friendly travel also expected to surge

(Newser) - Closing the wallet and opening the palate are set to be big in 2009, says Gourmet, which has served up its predictions of next year's hottest food and travel trends:

With the economic slump, home cooking is hot, hot, hot. Learn to cook a casserole and take mom’s advice—

...

Nude Blago Joins Naked Palin

Dec 21, 2008 10:27 AM CST

Nude Blago Joins Naked Palin

Chicago artist creates 'irreverent' follow-up to nude Palin

(Newser) - Somewhere in a Chicago bar, embattled Gov. Rod Blagojevich is cavorting in the buff with winkin' Gov. Sarah Palin—or at least if life imitated art, reports the Chicago Tribune. The latest "nude governors" installment from Chicago artist Bruce Elliot imagines Blago reporting for prison. Titled "The...

Blago: I Won't
Step Down

UPDATED

Dec 19, 2008 2:26 PM CST

Blago: I Won't Step Down

(Newser) - Rod Blagojevich proclaimed his innocence at a jam-packed press conference this afternoon, vowing to "fight until I take my last breath," the Chicago Tribune reports. "I'm not going to quit a job that people hired me to do because of false accusations and a political lynch mob,...

Blago Says He Won't
Appoint Anyone to Senate

Dec 17, 2008 6:31 PM CST

Blago Says He Won't Appoint Anyone to Senate

(Newser) - Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich won't appoint anyone to Barack Obama's vacant Senate seat while his corruption scandal unfolds, his lawyer said today. "Why would he do that?" said Ed Genson. "Harry Reid said that they're not going to accept anybody he picks." Genson, who spoke to reporters...

Blago 'Upbeat'
Amid Storm

Dec 11, 2008 6:22 PM CST

Blago 'Upbeat' Amid Storm

(Newser) - With pressure mounting by the hour for him to resign or face impeachment, Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich remained "upbeat" and in a "positive mood," his spokesman said. Blagojevich did his best to ignore the storm swirling around him. "There's a sense of trying to return to...